[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan":3,"chapter-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-160":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},60268,84,"Chapter 160: Pain That Builds a Monster","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-160",160,"\u003Cp>\"AAARRRGGGH!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment she entered the room, she could hear the endless screams of pain echoing from Bai Zihan’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(What’s he doing?)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was definitely not the kind of normal cultivation she had expected him to be doing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t seem like he was suffering from Qi deviation from cultivating incorrectly either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the materials around him, she was able to somehow come to the conclusion that Bai Zihan was refining his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the ingredients and the cultivation level of Bai Zihan, she felt like he was taking on something far bigger than he could handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grade-7 Monster Blood—such an ingredient wasn’t something a Nascent Soul cultivator could handle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Grade-5 Monster Blood would be difficult for a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to refine but Bai Zihan was taking Grade-7 Monster Blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And there were a few materials present that were of even higher grade than that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just what kind of Body Refinement Technique is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Remnant Soul wondered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With her knowledge, there weren’t many techniques she hadn’t seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though thousands of years had passed and new techniques might have been developed, they were always somewhat similar to already existing ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the refinement technique that Bai Zihan was using—she had no idea what it was, even with her millennia of accumulated knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Remnant Soul floated in silence, her gaze locked on the boy writhing below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pain that Bai Zihan was enduring... it didn’t just seem physical. Even his meridian seemed to be breaking and recovering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind of agony that could crush even Immortal cultivators and make grown men beg for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet... he didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even hesitate after the first bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the screaming dulled for just a moment, she saw his trembling hand reach out—grabbing a jagged black crystal that oozed with corrosive energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A material refined from the core of a Void Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just poisonous—it actively consumed life force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Remnant Soul’s brows furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could hardly believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t simply body refinement anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This... this was something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...This technique...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She muttered under her breath, voice filled with doubt and curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen... Even among Immortal-Grade Techniques—this stands apart.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had studied thousands of techniques during her lifetime—personally created many, even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From ancient forbidden arts passed down from the Age of Chaos, to modern refinements forged in the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet not a single one resembled the madness unfolding before her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way Bai Zihan’s flesh trembled, tore, and stitched itself back together...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way his Qi spiraled violently, refusing to stabilize, like it was being forcefully reforged...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t refinement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a reconstruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... this might even surpass Immortal Grade,\" she whispered, awe creeping into her tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be a Technique more ancient than the Age of Chaos?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She watched him as he grabbed another vial—this one filled with a swirling, crimson mist that pulsed like a heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drop of blood from a Phoenix?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he was screaming in agony, he was still going to take a Drop of Blood from phoenix which would increase the pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Insane...)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He poured it into his mouth without flinching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scream ripped from his throat moments later, his skin glowing red as if he’d been thrown into a furnace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But still—he didn’t stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as his body convulsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as blood poured from his eyes, his nose, his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even as his bones cracked like glass under pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most would have long since passed out. Others would have gone mad. And yet Bai Zihan remained conscious—awake—driven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Remnant Soul’s expression softened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(This technique wasn’t meant for everyone. I don’t think that even I could have withstood such agony.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Body Refinement was obviously very powerful, she didn’t think it was for everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many would have died by even taking one Material for the Body Refinement, not to mention several such materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then thought about the fated person to inherit her Inheritance which she also believes to be Bai Xinyue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After looking at her progress in the Third Trial, she also knew about her character and what type of person she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her kindness, her determination and her talent which she thought was comparable to hers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although satisfied that her heir would be someone like her, she had been having second thoughts ever since Bai Zihan showed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for her calculations—and the Inheritance being tailor-made for a girl—she wouldn’t have hesitated to give it to Bai Zihan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt that even Bai Xinyue, as talented as she was, would have died on the first step if she refined her body using Bai Zihan’s Refinement Technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, the Body Refinement Technique that Bai Zihan was using, she believed it was definitely something more powerful than what she could offer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, It was not a technique that rewarded ambition. It was one that demanded sacrifice—pain beyond measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The part that surprised her most wasn’t the technique or the ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t a hint of fear in them. No hesitation. No despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a cold, iron-like determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His determination never fading, making him seem like a completely different person than she saw previously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her earlier impression of him was that he was young, arrogant, undeniably talented—blessed by fate, but naive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone who had never truly worked hard or experienced real suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet she seemed to have been wrong about Bai Zihan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She rescued people, took care of them, and in the end even sacrificed his life to fight the Devil while making others flee the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Just what is driving this boy?)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hovered in silence, a strange emotion tightening in her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiration? Pity? Intrigue?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t tell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one thing was clear—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted to see where this boy’s path would lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what he would become once he walked it to the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could he also be the one who can save this world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1001,"2026-05-28T18:17:14.491Z","2026-06-01T04:28:34.960Z",1,"novelbin.me","99296711227a93db7b3b0f997c0f448d3de12baf353f5f8328ee5633a9f52bb1","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-161","turns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-chapter-159",580,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fturns-out-i-m-in-a-villain-clan-cover.jpg"]